Squamish has the best bang for your buck when it comes to real estate so rent should be cheaper than Vancouver or Whistler. Advice??.. Bring money with you. The livin' ain't cheap where you be wanting to live.

You can day trip Whistler or Vancouver by Greyhound. Both are about an hour away.

The MTB trails are great. I've only ridden around there once. There's a great intermediate flowy trail called Half Nelson.

If you're going to live in Squamish you have to start rock climbing. It's got to be the best place on earth to climb (Sorry other places but I love Western Canada!). There's every type of climbing in Squamish. You can even climb outside when it rains by Murrin Lake. There's a crag that sits under a big overhang.

Good luck whatever you decide!

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"While there was little employment change in British Columbia in February, the unemployment rate for the province increased 0.6 percentage points to 8.8%, the result of more people entering the labour force in search of work."

Don't count Whistler out! You have a good bank roll. Plus you're getting into town when rent's at it's cheapest. Most six month rentals will want to start May 1st. So start looking now even if you're trying to get a year long lease starting in July.

The interior of BC such as Kamloops will be much cheaper. I've suggested places like Golden and Invermere to people saying they didn't have any savings. You better be serious about that no night life thing.

One last thing check out worca.com.

I'm going to rob banks til I retire or get caught. Either way I'm set for life

Homless junkie: Yeah, my friend who is coming on later on the fall would love whistler 'cause of skiing! So that would be a dream. About the night life, well, we do like to party, so non at at all would be a bummer. I look in to it more later when I got some time on my hand, off to help a friend now. Thanks for the help!

So all I got to do is get temporary social security number when get to Canada, so no illegalities, it could and probably would get me kicked out of the country.

By used you mean work hard with low pay? If so, it sound just like the work I got now With the government take over 30% of my paycheck, working 12 hour shifts at a plant, traveling for almost 2 hours a day to work and back....haha, I will love it.

Hey Tungsten I'm suprised to hear you think it's so hard to get a work visa in Canada. I don't know first hand but I was always told it was easy to get a work visa as long as you weren't from the states LOL.

Mendelmu you should have told me you had a friend coming in the winter! Here's what you do. You and your girl get a six month lease this summer then when rent gets higher the three of you (You, your girl and your buddy) get a place for the last six months. It's always cheaper the more heads that go in on a place. I'll warn you now if you start to living in Whistler you'll never leave. Wait til you see how many people you'll meet who have this story to tell you. "I came to live in Whistler for one winter and ended up staying here the last two or three or four etc. etc. years.

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Pretty much everything out here is AM style riding, except for a few less gnarly trails here and there. But compared to what Californians think of MTB riding, everything is AM. A Blue square trail here is like black diamond in most other areas of the continent.

Train and bus transit is generally poor unless you live in reasonably close proximity to where you work, or happen to live near a Sky Train or Canada Line station and happen to have a job near one on the train line, once you add a bus in, you're almost always better off riding to work.